Alan Marshall, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, has always sought to give something back to civil rights movement that has given so much to him. In 2010, he was inspired to write the libretto for the first opera about the civil rights movement. THE MARCH: A Civil Rights Opera is a dramatization of the events surrounding the 1963 March on Washington. Marshall's innovation of the "mass-meeting" as a theatrical medium began at the first public concert for the opera in 2012. A mass-meeting production includes freedom songs with audience participation, speeches, testimonies & character-driven drama, all happening in and around the audience. Marshall has written, directed, and produced several mass-meeting performances including Freedom Summer, Remembering Medgar Evers, Shades of Mississippi, The Birmingham Children's March, and Prelude to a Dream. On November 22, 2013, National Pastime Theater in Chicago presented the world premiere of Marshall's THE INTERVIEW: JFK. Marshall will restage THE INTERVIEW: JFK in 2019, to be followed by Marilyn and Jack, a poignant drama, set in the afterlife, exploring the enigmatic relationship between John F.

Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. These are the first two installments in Marshall's JFK Trilogy of stage plays which will be completed in 2020 with The Shadow of Death.